A plea for naturalistic metaphysics : why analytic metaphysics is not enough / Ulrich Steinvorth.
Steinvorth, Ulrich, author.
2021
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Title A plea for naturalistic metaphysics : why analytic metaphysics is not enough / Ulrich Steinvorth.
Author Steinvorth, Ulrich, author.
ISBN 9783030726034 (electronic bk.)
3030726037 (electronic bk.)
9783030726027
3030726029
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72603-4
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-72603-4 doi
Call Number BD111
Dewey Decimal Classification 110
Summary In this small book, Ulrich Steinvorth describes the reasons why analytic philosophy, which started as an anti-metaphysical project, has become a strong advocate of metaphysics, and why it must become synthetic, normative, and naturalistic. Steinvorth argues that self-regulation is the common property of all being, that we can talk of an increase or escalation of self-regulation in the evolution of being, and that self-regulation becomes self-determination in man. Considering objections to this view related to questions of free will, consciousness, the naturalistic fallacy, and teleology, he draws on cybernetics, dual process theory, physical cosmology, and Leibnizs demiurgic idea of measuring the goodness of a world by the number of possibilities opened up by the world. To test his approach and show its political relevance, he applies it to political liberalism. Ulrich Steinvorth is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and lives in the United States. He has published numerous books and articles on political philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics in German, English, and French, and has taught philosophy at universities in Germany, France, Turkey, Japan, China, and the USA.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Available in Other Form Plea for naturalistic metaphysics.
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Intro
Contents
Chapter 1: Why Naturalistic Metaphysics Is Needed
The Specter of Metaphysics
Analytic Philosophy's Manifesto
The Virtues Required of Metaphysics
Metaphysical Questions and History
Responses to Modern Science
Bibliography
Chapter 2: The Ontology of Escalation
Self-Regulation in Animals
Self-Determination
To Be Is to Be Self-Regulated
Consciousness and Abilities
Self-Determination and Dual Process Theory
How to Find What Suits Me
The Moral and the Metaphysical
Teleology
Being, Value, and the Demiurge
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Practical Conclusions
Rethinking Liberalism
Privacy and Education
Bibliography
Bibliography
Index.

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